Page 9 - State Exchanges News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Tanden, thank you both for joining us. joining me now, 2016 democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders. i know you were on the health committee as it was crafting the senate version of the -- of what became the affordable care act. your reaction to today's decision? >> well, it was a very common sense decision. i was on the committee pip went to 8 zillion meetings to discuss the issue. and to write the legislation. nobody but nobody distinguished between federal exchanges and state exchanges. that was a nonissue which some white-wing guys pick ded up on hoping to overturn the affordable ...

>> well, we've seen a 6-3 decision, which frankly i'm kind of stunned by it. i didn't expect that kind of overwhelming decision in this case. you know, the literal interpretation of the law seemed to have created separation between the federal exchanges and state exchanges. and as i harken back to the debate in '09 and 2010, i know there were democratic senators who really did not want to make an easy pathway for a default to federal exchanges. so i'm, frankly, kind of stunned by the decision. but that doesn't hide the fact that we've got a law that i believe is deeply flawed. if you look at i...

Sanders. i know you were on the health committee as it was crafting the senate version of the -- of what became the affordable care act. your reaction to today's decision? >> well, it was a very common sense decision. i was on the committee pip went to 8 zillion meetings to discuss the issue. and to write the legislation. nobody but nobody distinguished between federal exchanges and state exchanges. that was a nonissue, which some white-wing guys picked up on, hoping to overturn the affordable care act. i think clearly the president is right. the affordable care act is now here to stay. it has...

The site called the hawaii health connector. the operators have a contingency plan. scrap it altogether. >> in the case of hawaii they have an exchange that they were not operating very well and the lack of political support in the state legislature to provide that financing so they are coming up empty. >> reporter: hawaii would join states like oregon with federal grants running out, the state exchanges have to be financially self-sufficient. many are looking to insurance companies to fund shortfalls. >> i think we will see further attrition among the existing state exchanges and more of them...

Thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the kelly file seeing many tonight. last week the supreme court heard oral arguments challenging the affordable healthcare act. at issue at least 34 states that don't have state-run insurance exchange mechanisms. here now to explain further former fnc supreme court reporter the anchor of the kelly file ms. megyn. this bores me to tear. >> my segment. >> it's important but it's so complicated and no one cares about the inner mechanismizations of this thing. >> they want to know whether the law is going to rise or fall. >> right. it's wording of t...